• Liam James Kingsley

COVID-19 is teaching us lessons we should have learned from the HIV epidemic.

• William Shoki

In South Africa, social distancing to bring down COVID-19 infections takes a decidedly local shape. In a racialized society, it manifests primarily as white melancholia and black Afro-pessimism.

• Seán Muller

The Ramaphosa Presidency has been praised for its handling of the coronavirus pandemic, but the compensating measures that accompany it are inadequate to protect much of the population.

• Kiasha Naidoo

Pandemics force even neoliberal thinkers to admit government action and collective solidarity are urgently needed.

• Loren B Landau
• Roni Amit

Recent restrictions on refugees—and the limited protests against them—reflect the degree to which many South Africans see “xenophobia” as legitimate hate.

• Zohran Kwame Mamdani

Will Shoki sits down with Ugandan-born rapper and housing advocate Zohran Mamdani about his bid to represent Queens in the New York State Assembly.

• William Shoki

A resurgent conspiracy theory that Nelson Mandela died in 1985 reveals the growing hopelessness in South Africa that rampant inequality is irreversible.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Masauko Chipembere's first solo album is a remarkable achievement and a timely musical reminder of the circular nature of pan-Africanist consciousness.

• Norbert Odero

For immigrants—especially African and black immigrants to Western countries—the question of home is complex.

• Zuhair Mehrali

Exile and memory from East Africa to the United Kingdom and back again.

• Sean Henry Jacobs

Live TV broadcasts of political rallies, funerals and press conferences, may be more decisive than social media in shaping mass debate in South Africa.

• Marta Tveit

Comics have power, especially over the young, and perhaps more than we care to acknowledge.

• Daniel Okechukwu

Africa is apparently hot in Hollywood, but can Hollywood be trusted with African stories?

• Maxim Matusevich

In contrast to renewed fears in the west over Russian expansionism in Africa, Russia's increased presence on the continent is mostly about pursuing lucrative business opportunities.

• William Shoki

Combating Zionism requires a vision that pays no credence to ethno-nationalism. As the world reconsiders the one-state solution, South Africa should lead the way.

• Sa’eed Husaini

Omoyele Sowore was the presidential hope of Nigeria's more active left. He fared abysmally. What next for progressive electoral politics in Nigeria?

• Chelsea Stieber

The 1973 dystopian apocalyptic French novel that inspires today's violent white, rightwing populism.

• Jon Fish Hodgson

The moral drama of the Israeli occupation plays out at a South African school.

• Abraham T. Zere

An US congressional delegation to Eritrea—the first in 14 years—which included Ilhan Omar, got little attention in mainstream media. Why?

• Joeva Rock
• Jacob M. Grumbach

The involvement of far right and conservative think tanks in developing Trump's Africa agenda.